Category: Software

July 12, 2021

Enterprise network infrastructure and operations teams are increasingly recognizing the value of applying AIOps to network management, according to new market research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). AI for IT operations (AIOps) is a maturing class of technology that combines […]

June 18, 2021

One of the first software-defined networking (SDN) languages called Openflow was created about ten years ago and was demonstrated at an Interop tradeshow from some Opengear equipment I donated. I was at a trade show and slowly but surely, people […]

June 11, 2021

The transcript of a recent internal presentation by Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei attracted much attention in the press and was interpreted as a strategy to counter restrictions to access the US and other markets, and to impose Chinese global dominance […]

June 4, 2021

The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office is moving to support development and testing of an open-source Standalone 5G software stack from the OpenAirInterface (OAI) Software Alliance, with the launch of OpenAirX-Labs (OAX). The lab launch under PAWR […]

June 2, 2021

To remain successful in the 4th Industrial Revolution, CSPs need to ensure they can constantly evolve based on customers’ requirements, new trends, and technological changes. Some of the requirements of these demands present sizable hurdles to overcome – greater broadband […]

May 26, 2021

Older protocols are hard to kill. From consumer-based protocols like SMBv1 to network-based protocols like Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM), we typically need time and planning to move off protocols that we rely on. Many of us are still using […]

May 25, 2021

Juniper Networks is releasing the latest version of its Apstra intent-based networking software that includes new monitoring features and configuration templates as well as better integration with VMware’s NSX virtualization and security platform. In January, Juniper bought Apstra and its […]

May 21, 2021

In early May, fitness company Peloton announced that it had exposed customer account data on the internet. Anyone could access users’ account data from Peloton’s servers, even if the users set their account profiles as private. The cause: a faulty […]

May 7, 2021

Though the economy has started to show some signs of recovery, the business world is still grappling with the setbacks that arose during 2020. Companies have had to make rapid adjustments to their business as they adapted to the unexpected […]

April 30, 2021

Back in 2017, an EY telecom survey asked telecommunications CIOs and CTOs what they thought were the biggest opportunities and obstacles facing them in the next three years. Virtualization was already seen as one of the most important enablers of […]